This weekend I'll start quilting my first actual twin sized quilt (I made an 'almost' twin sized one recently). But the throat on my machine is tiny tiny ... it's a great machine but when I bought it I didn't know about such things as needing a large throat space! :-)

Wow, what an undertaking!! The hardest thing for me is keeping the back smooth through out the quilting. How do you keep that from happening on these large quilts? I hate for there to be little bunches here and there on the back.

Seeing your quilt got me so excited! I've been working on a crazy quilt piece of fabric all holiday weekend using 1 1/2 squares of fabric.

This is my first time doing this with so much non coordinated lines of fabric. What a challenge but fun!!!

I first tried to organize them individually but that became overwhelming. Then I remembered your technique of sewing together pairs and then pairing up the pairs and then pairing up the blocks and so on and so forth. That made it so much easier.

Even more exciting is we have some of the same fabrics in our quilt....it's the SR Harris influence! :-)

I know what you are talking about. I just finished a king size quilt for my bed and quilted it on my machine. But boy is it worth it to be able to throw it into the washer immediately, dry it and put it on your bed. Awesome! :)

The binding looks fantabulous! Love your comment about getting the upper body workout. I've never quilted a king-size, but that's how I feel when I'm wrestling a quilt through my Bernina. Still, I love the process.

Just thinking about it makes me tired. It's about time for me to move my machine to a large table and begin quilting this year's gift quilts. But I'm sure I make it harder on myself, because I prefer a midloft batt and straight-line quilting with a walking foot.

That binding will look awesome on that already awesome quilt! I've currently got a slightly larger than queen size on the bed of my Juki and have done king size quilts. I've got some fairly impressive arm muscles for a middle-age plus girl, if I do say so myself. I definitely owe them to quilting:)

It's going to be gorgeous! I love the satisfaction that comes with quilting a large quilt on my home machine. A quilt that large means more work with every single step of the quilting process, but it is so worth it!

I've quilted all of mine on my little Brother at home; it is a massive upper body workout but it's worth it. It's also worth filling several bobbins with thread because you just know it's going to run out when you're in the middle!

I was wondering if you were going to quilt it yourself or send it out. I'm a longarm quilter and we quilt for a lot of people who quilt their own smaller quilts but when it comes to the kings and queens, we get them. I have some fantastic designs for modern quilts or fun ones to, like guitars, crowns, surf boards...

certainly you have raised lots of comments on what a mammoth task you are undertaking, still to have a go at machine quilting but it will be on some thing very small! Wow even your binding is made from scraps, all wonderful

wow, you are a BRAVE woman to quilt a king size on a sewing machine! (or is that CRAZY woman?) hehe :) You need a longarm as much as I do! If only I had the money and a room to put one in! Question: how did you BASTE a king sized quilt!?!

I quilt my projects on my Bernina 440. You inspire me to continue on quilting on my own machine. I thank you for that. I admit that I do have times when I have thoughts about sending the top out to be long-armed quilted like so many other quilters.

When I do my quilting, I set up a table to the left and to the right of my sewing machine. I also have space behind the machine and add support in front of the machine so the project has support from all sides.

I'm a new quilter and I've done 3 king quilts and a Queen on my domestic. All of these were started (and a couple finished) before I read blogs and found out most people don't do those sizes on domestics. Ignorance is bliss! My small projects are a breeze now!